Ok I admit it - I like Baseball. A Brit who likes baseball isn't going to get much sympathy in this country, a bit like saying George Bush is perfectly sane and a credit to the human race. (For the record I believe he's exactly the opposite). But anyway, I like the most over-complicated game to have a bat and a ball and I'd love to play it on my PC or my 360.

The last time a baseball game was released on the pc was over 3 years ago, so I thought I'd get 2K's MLB 2K7 for the 360... To no surprise it wasn't available in this country. Well that's not a problem in this new age of wonder - a quick look on ebay got me my copy. 2 days later it came and with fervent excitement loaded it into the 360.

Now obviously I should have seen this coming, but up pops the region-protection message and informs me in curt manner that I can't play this game. So after throwing a thousand curses in Cantonese and Anglo-Saxon I'm still angry and look into region-encoding on the 360 only to find that some titles - some progressive, liberal titles are region-free. But what about baseball games? Oh no, can't have those Mr. Adamfast, you have to have a US Xbox to play them.

So fine Microsoft, not only did you shift a broken console but you placed restrictions on it so that the one baseball fan in the uk can't play the game he wants to. Well, if I needed a reason to buy a PS3 then I've got one now. Heavenly Sword and MLB The Show here I come... small matter of £400 be damned.